FCO Spring Supplementary Estimates (Hansard, 3 March 2003)

§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (Baroness Amos)

Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £5,611,000 from £1,463,838,000 to £1,469,449,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £60,097,000 from £678,042,000 to £738,139,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

	Resources	Capital
Change	82,706,000	-77,095,000
New DEL.	1,401,303,000	68,146,000
Of which:
Voted	1,250,326,000	62,346,000
Non-voted	150,997,000	5,800,000

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from

i. A public expenditure survey (PES) transfer to the Department for Transport of £50,000 in respect of the setting up of a register of shipping by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency for certain Caribbean overseas territories.
ii. A PES transfer to the Ministry of Defence of £183,000 in respect of business rates applicable to the Old Admiralty Building—Citadel formerly paid by the FCO and now the responsibility of the MoD.
iii. Reclassification of £62,410,000 from capital to resource (administration costs of £56,810,000, grants of £5,600,000) to improve budgetary flexibility.
iv. A decrease of £11,750,000 in respect of an adjustment for overseas price movements.
v. An increase in admin costs of £1,630,000 in respect of increases to consular services overseas.
vi. A transfer from BBC World Service capital to BBC World Service resource of £30,000,000 to facilitate effective management of BBC World Service budgets.
vii. A PES transfer from the Department of Trade and Industry of £ 100,000 in respect of Invest UK DTI funded overseas slots at the time of the winter supplementary estimate, details of which were not published at the time.
viii. A PES transfer to the Department for International Development (DfID) and Ministry of Defence of £2,000,000 and £4,884,000 respectively in respect of the remainder required to fund planned conflict prevention (CP) programme activity to the end of the FY.
ix. A PES transfer from the CP global programme pool to DfID and the Ministry of Defence of £250,000 and £572,000 respectively in respect of baseline repatriation to departments.
x. A PES transfer from DfID of £1,450,000 to fund payment to a military officer in Angola, a project management transfer and the FC'O's one-third share of the existing CP Africa pool reserve.
xi. Take up of EYF if £11,531,000 from a combination of underspends on the 2001–02 CP DUP and DfID and FCO CP programme underspends.
xii. A PES transfer to DfID of £5,000,000 for planned CP programme activities at the time of the winter supplementary estimate, details of which were not published at the time.
xiii. A PES transfer to the security and intelligence agencies of £225,000 for CP activities at the time of the winter supplementary estimates, details of which were not published at the time.
xiv. An increase of £499,000 for additional security at posts in the Middle East.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:

i. A PES transfer from the Home Office of £515,000 and £264,000 to defray the extra costs to the FCO of setting up visa regimes for Zimbabwe and Jamaica.
ii. Reclassification of £62,410,000 from capital to resource to improve budgetary flexibility.
iii. A decrease of £585,000 in respect of an adjustment for overseas price movements.
iv. A transfer from BBC World Service capital to BBC World Service resource of £30,000,000 to facilitate effective management of BBC World Service budgets.
v. An increase of £5,121,000 for additional security at posts in the Middle East.
vi. An increase of £10,000,000 to cover a shortfall in non-operating appropriation in aid in respect of asset recycling.